In Chapter 5, the girls in Room 420 have a party. One wall is covered with photos. They have a section of celebrity “crushes.” Clint asked which girl put up pictures of “the guys from Laredo.” Sherry says she did because she liked Chad, played by actor Peter Brown, because he has “a sarcastic sense …
I just discovered this video, which goes perfectly with the subject of my novel. Here is the original “media influencer”, Dick Clark, promoting the “new” TV show Batman on American Bandstand. Even Dick’s Top 10 & some dancing at the end of the clip.
Color on television was a big deal in the mid 60s. Television news was the last programs to switch to color. The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite went to color in February of 1966. The Huntley & Brinkley Report on NBC & the ABC World News would not go to color broadcast until later …
In my novel, the girls in room 420 (Sherry, Kathy, Grace & Debbie) have this poster on their dorm room wall. This was sold when he was a teenager heartthrob on The Man from UNCLE. Today he plays Ducky on NCIS.
On this day, in 1966, the television show, Batman, debuted on ABC, staring Adam West & Burt Ward. However, it was not seen in Springfield, Missouri & the Ozarks until a week later, because there wasn’t a full time ABC affiliate in the Ozarks. It was shown a week later on the NBC affiliate, KYTV. …
WIP: DYNAMIC DUO OF THE OZARKS 